<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Lucky5:
...To wit, if this (hopefully ex-) passenger's filthy nicotine habit were banned, this serious security issue never would have occurred in the first place.
Talk about missing the obvious! </font>
It is indeed banned --
as it quite rightly should be -- inside a public space (SFO) which is partly your space and air. That's why she was going outside. What else would you like to ban? Self-righteousness?